Nancy Mulligan

Album: ÷ (2017)
Charted: 13
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  • I was twenty-four years old
    When I met the woman I would call my own
    Twenty-two grand kids now growing old
    In that house that your brother bought ya

    On the summer day when I proposed
    I made that wedding ring from dentist gold
    And I asked her father, but her daddy said, "No
    You can't marry my daughter"

    She and I went on the run
    Don't care about religion
    I'm gonna marry the woman I love
    Down by the Wexford border

    She was Nancy Mulligan
    And I was William Sheeran
    She took my name and then we were one
    Down by the Wexford border

    Well, met her at Guy's in the second world war
    And she was working on a soldier's ward
    Never had I seen such beauty before
    The moment that I saw her

    Nancy was my yellow rose
    And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
    We got eight children now growing old
    Five sons and three daughters

    She and I went on the run
    Don't care about religion
    I'm gonna marry the woman I love
    Down by the Wexford border

    She was Nancy Mulligan
    And I was William Sheeran
    She took my name and then we were one
    Down by the Wexford border

    From her snow white streak in her jet black hair
    Over sixty years I've been loving her
    Now we're sat by the fire in our old armchairs
    You know Nancy, I adore ya

    From a farm boy born near Belfast town
    I never worried about the king and crown
    'Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
    There's no difference, I assure ya

    She and I went on the run
    Don't care about religion
    I'm gonna marry the woman I love
    Down by the Wexford border

    She was Nancy Mulligan
    And I was William Sheeran
    She took my name and then we were one
    Down by the Wexford border Writer/s: Amy Victoria Wadge, Benjamin Joseph Levin, Edward Christopher Sheeran, Foy Best Vance, John Mcdaid, Murray Cummings
    Publisher: BDI Music Limited, BMG Rights Management, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Sheeran_love from Tennesseefinally got my friend into ed sheeran with this song!!
  • Qwers from MinasotaBest song ever
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